by Diane W. Bailey | Mar 9, 2015 | Diane's Posts
When I was a pre-teen, my dad had a string of prisms hanging from a tree outside our kitchen window. Sometimes, in the late afternoon, as mom was cooking supper, I would sit and wait for the afternoon light to engage with the prisms. When it did, small circles of...
by Diane W. Bailey | Feb 18, 2015 | Diane's Posts
Perhaps it was my own low self-esteem that left the door to my heart wide open. Perhaps it was lack of faith that took my eyes off Christ and on to others. Or, maybe it’s human nature to vacillate between flesh and spirit. And when flesh is winning we are the ultimate...
by Diane W. Bailey | Feb 12, 2015 | Diane's Posts
Today we celebrate 15 years, my man and I. Fifteen years of love and arguments, children and teens, graduations and job, births and funerals. As a stained glass window tells a story through broken shards of glass, our story is told through broken hearts becoming a...
by Diane W. Bailey | Feb 4, 2015 | Consilium Community, Diane's Posts
To this day, neither of us can remember how it began. Did I comment on her blog first or did she comment on mine? Either way, we consider it a divine-online connection. Susan Stilwell lives in Virginia and I, in Alabama. Susan would laugh at me later, because I would...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 19, 2015 | Diane's Posts
Maybe it was teen rebellion, or maybe it was the undeniable call of the first warm day after winter; whatever the reason, my daughter skipped school that day headed for the lake. The combination of a beautiful day and cabin fever made the seduction of truancy...
by Diane W. Bailey | Jan 14, 2015 | Diane's Posts
The sun reclines back on the horizon after a full day, casting long shadows across the path I walk alone. Cold beads of fear line my brow as I strain to follow the fading path back to my group. Why had I ventured alone so late in the afternoon? The desert air was...